The US Patent Office launched a new e-filing site last week and it is very Mac friendly: "The great news for Apple is that USPTO listened to its customers and integrated Mac OS X and Safari support into its new e-filing system,” Susan Prescott Apple’s vice president of Pro Markets, told Macworld. “Innovators around the world use Macs."

HOWTO: Connect a mini to an older, RGB-only HDTV: "Some of my testing involved hooking the mini up to our high definition
television (HDTV). For those of you with newer HDTV's, this is a simple
task, as it apparently just works.
But our set, a Pioneer SD-582HD5, is nearly five years old, and lacks
any form of computer connectivity other than an RGB input. I spent many
hours with Google, talking to friends, and playing with way too much
hardware in the family room before I finally got things working
acceptably."

Apparently Denon is a little confused as to why Apple chose to compare the iPod HiFi unit with Denon's AV recievers: "Denon Electronics marketing manager Jeff Talmadge has responded to
Apple's claim that the iPod Hi-Fi speaker system could replace
comparable offerings from companies such as his, telling MacCentral's Jim Dalrymple:
"It is sort of confusing why they would throw it up against an AV
receiver that was not made for the iPod ... Maybe we should be
flattered that they picked us, but it's a completely different animal."